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Background in research project coordination, biostatistics, and population health data science. Proficiency with data formatting and handling.

Research interests: environmental toxicants, traumatic stress disorders, community-level deprivation, spatial epidemiology.

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Ivan Castro

Education

Syracuse University

MSPH in Biostatistics

Syracuse, NY

2018

SUNY Oswego

BA in Psychology

Oswego, NY

2013

Experience

Data Analyst

innoVet Health

Syracuse, NY

2020 - present

Research Coordinator

VISN 2 Center for Integrated Healthcare

Syracuse, NY

2018 - 2020

  • Coordinated behavioral clinical trial funded by an NIH R34 (treatment development) grant
  • Managed clinical research data / wrote data analysis pipelines
  • Established reproducible workflows for processing monthly recruitment data
  • Created ad hoc data wrangling solutions for national program evaluation

Project Manager

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2015 - 2019

  • Managed NSF-funded training program in trauma research
  • Assisted in the design of social science research studies
  • Built surveys for electronic data capture
  • Responsible for data management

Research Assistant

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

2016 - 2018

  • Graduate RA in the Dept. of Public Health
  • Actively involved in several public health research studies:
  • Syracuse Lead Study / Vacationing and Health / College Football Injuries
  • Conducted statistical analysis in R and SPSS
  • Conducted spatial analysis in R and ArcGIS
  • Wrote analysis pipelines for modelling environmental exposures to toxicants.

Publications

Race differences in the effect of Subjective Social Status on hostility and depressive symptoms among 9- to 11-year-old Children

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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2020

Castro, I. E., Hruska, B., and Gump, B. B.

Variability in the spatial density of vacant properties contributes to background lead (Pb) exposure in children.

Environmental Research, 170, 463-471.

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2019

Castro, I. E., Larsen, D. A., Hruska, B., Parson, P. J., Palmer, C. D., and Gump, B. B.

Software resources

tidyVA

An R package of Veterans Health Administration geographies in simple features format for tidy spatial analysis and visualization.

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healthdatacsv

An R package to interface with the healthdata.gov API to query the catalog and return tidy data frames.

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Presentations

A Delphi study to integrate Prolonged Exposure for Primary Care and Motivational Enhancement Therapy for heavy alcohol use.

ISTSS Annual Meeting

Boston, MA

2019

Castro, I. E., Crinnin, C., Mastroleo, N., King, P., Balderrama-Durbin, C., Rauch, S., & Possemato, K.

The implications of social support and resilience in a Veteran’s wellbeing.

Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting

New York, NY

2016

Castro, I. E. and Dykas, M. J.